If we’re trying to make sense of systems, our greatest enemy is fragmentation. Or, to be more precise, the type of fragmentation that arises from misuse of analysis. Specialise, says analysis. Specialise again! And specialise the specialisms! Hyperspecialise! Cut it…
Category: Enterprise architecture
Notes on enterprise-architecture development and application – for the whole enterprise, not just the IT domains
Against fragmentation
Tagged with: complexity, Enterprise architecture, fragmentation, generalist, generalist vs specialist, marketing, paradigm
Open Group, HERA and healthcare
The Open Group’s Healthcare Forum recently published (free, but registration required) their version 0.1 ‘snapshot’ for HERA, their proposed ‘Healthcare Enterprise Reference Architecture’. What follows is a quick(ish) review, together with some practical recommendations. I’ll try to be nice –…
Tagged with: Business, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, healthcare, IT-architecture, IT-centrism, Open Group, standards
Fractality in Five Elements method
This is another of the sort-of status-reports about the ‘hammer it out in practice’ work that designer Joseph Chittenden and I have been doing on Five Elements, to make it more accessible and usable for a more general audience. In…
Tagged with: change, complexity, Enterprise architecture, Five Elements model, methodology, sense-making
Documenting the Not-known
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In our work on simplifying the ‘inventory’ of tools and techniques I’d developed for whole-enterprise architecture and the like, one of the challenges we keep hitting up against is how to capture ideas, information and insights, as they appear during…
The relationship is the asset
“Our people are our greatest asset!” How often have you heard that phrase? How often have you used that phrase yourself? But how often have you stopped to think about what it means? – and what it implies in real…
Tagged with: asset, Business, business architecture, Enterprise architecture, relational-asset, responsibility
Architecture-videos schedule – April-June 2018
For future reference, here’s the current schedule for videos in my weekly ‘Tetradian on Architecture‘ series on YouTube, for the next few months: Episode 10: ‘Always start from a business-question‘ (published 05 April 2018) Episode 11: ‘Where does EA fit…
Sensemaking and the flocking of Boyds
It began with an octopus; wandered into an accidental remark about “a flocking of Boyds”; and then drifted off somewhat sideways from there. But seems that this crabwise shuffle may be leading somewhere useful – for my current explorations of…
Tagged with: change, complexity, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Futures, John Boyd, metaphor, SCAN, sense-making
Service, product and architecture terminology
This one’s a follow-on to the ‘Service, product, service‘ post, but with an emphasis on the role of architecture-terminology itself, rather than any specific item referred to by that terminology. This starts with a private LinkedIn-message that a colleague sent…
Tagged with: Business, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, product, service, taxonomy, terminology
Service, product, service
What’s the relationship between product and service? And if, as in the Enterprise Canvas model, we assert that ‘everything is or represents a service’, what then is a product? The short-answer is that a product is a ‘frozen’ service – a…
Sensemaking: Down in the dungeons
Following on from the previous post ‘Sensemaking: Into the void‘, what’s a good everyday analogy or example on how to develop our skills in sensemaking and strategy? In particular, how to understand, apply and use the ‘sense, make-sense, decide, act‘…
Tagged with: change, complexity, decision-making, Enterprise architecture, Five Elements model, Futures, metaphor, SCAN, sense-making
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